Tom Forrestall Retrospective opens at The Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University

Our dear dad's exhibition has just opened at his alma mater, The Owen's Art Gallery at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick. This photo below of dad with curator Tom Smart, was from his lecture at this show at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2 years ago.

Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings

14 May to 29 August

A major retrospective exhibition of approximately 70 paintings, drawings, and journal sketchbooks by Nova Scotia artist and Mount Allison University Fine Arts graduate Tom Forrestall, spanning several decades of his artistic career. Curated by Tom Smart and organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Image (above): Tom Forrestall, Self Portrait, 14 December 1993

http://www.mta.ca/owens/exhibitions/index.php

above, from left: Tom Smart, Tom Forrestall show back of one of dad's paintings

 and the writings he does on each work. 

A companion exhibition, Tom Forrestall: BFA '58

A companion exhibition to Tom Forrestall: Paintings, Drawings, Writings, spotlighting Tom Forrestall as a Mount Allison BFA graduate. This show includes works by Forrestall from the Owens' collection, as well as works by his teachers at Mount Allison-- Alex Colville, Lawren P. Harris, and Ted Pulford-- tracing Forrestall's artistic development and some of his influences.

--Monica Forrestall